A George III mahogany eight day longcase clock, the pagoda topped hood with fret carved lattice panel flanked by spherical brass finials and fluted pilasters, above stop-fluted columns with brass corinthian capitals, glazed sound frets to the sides, the arched silvered brass Roman and Arabic dial with subsiduary second and calander rings, signed John Carlofs, LONDON, STRIKE/SILENT to the arch, within engraved sheaf spandrels, the four pillar movement with dead beat escapement, the conforming trunk on a panelled stepped plinth and bracket foot

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A George III mahogany eight day longcase clock, the pagoda topped hood with fret carved lattice panel flanked by spherical brass finials and fluted pilasters, above stop-fluted columns with brass corinthian capitals, glazed sound frets to the sides, the arched silvered brass Roman and Arabic dial with subsiduary second and calander rings, signed John Carlofs, LONDON, STRIKE/SILENT to the arch, within engraved sheaf spandrels, the four pillar movement with dead beat escapement, the conforming trunk on a panelled stepped plinth and bracket foot
-- 93in. (236.2cm) high, with pendulum and two brass weights.
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